In microsoft.public.money, Lawrence G. Mayka wrote:

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What is the QIF transaction that leads to the problem? Can you copy
that particular transaction here ^ line to ^ line?


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"Lawrence G. Mayka" <lgmayka000[at]ameritech.net> wrote in message
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I have confirmed that this is a serious bug in Money 2004 Deluxe. I ran
Standard Repair on my MNY file, and it found no errors. I then exported a
QIF of the particular problematic investment. Next, I created a brand-new
MNY file, imported the previous QIF, and then entered the problematic
transaction, manually. A click of Account Summary then crashes Money
catastrophically.

We'll see if Microsoft is willing to do anything about this, though.

"Lawrence G. Mayka" <lgmayka000[at]ameritech.net> wrote in message
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OK, I think I've narrowed down the problem. Mercifully, I found a different
backup file from the last time Money worked properly, earlier today. I then
redid my changes one by one. I first narrowed down the problem to the QIF,
then to a particular transaction in the QIF; then I duplicated the problem
by entering the transaction manually. Thus, the problem lies not in the QIF
format but rather

IN MONEY 2004 DELUXE ITSELF!

Specifically, I start out with an investment account which includes a mutual
fund in the amount of 19979.927 shares--or so Money tells me. But when I
enter a transaction to sell all I own of that mutual fund, Money informs me
that, contrary to the Account Summary, I actually own only 19979.9269 shares
of the mutual fund, and do I want to sell exactly that much? I say OK.
Things look calm unless/until I either look again at the Account Summary, or
close and reopen Money. Either way, Money crashes catastrophically.

The bottom line is that Money has a serious bug in the fourth decimal place.
Apparently some parts of Money do keep track of the fourth decimal place,
but others don't, and the result is a contradiction that blows up the
program!

So I don't know what to do now. Does this mean that I have to enter every
investment transaction manually, checking to see if the Account Summary
blows up? This is crazy. Keep in mind that ordinarily, I download QIF
files from Fidelity; it is Fidelity that apparently records the fourth
decimal place in its transactions. Simply rounding to the third decimal
place is not an option unless I want to enter all transactions manually.

Lawrence, I'm having a sim. problem. I'm being forced to
move from Money 2000 to 2004 Delux. After install
(several attempts mind you) Money 2004 immed. crashes
when I try and open, import or restore the data from
Money 2000. I've reinstalled 2000 and was successful in
restoring the back-up. I also called MS today and they
had no idea why it was doing this... running on XP...

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"Lawrence G. Mayka" <lgmayka000[at]ameritech.net> wrote in message
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I should point out that I am using Money 2004 Deluxe.

"Lawrence G. Mayka" <lgmayka000[at]ameritech.net> wrote in message
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Is there a way to "clean" the latest Money file so that Money can open it
without crashing?

HELP!

I was working in Money. Among other things I loaded a QIF, which as you
know forces Money to make an immediate backup. When I finished working, I
closed Money. A short while later I opened Money, and it immediate crashed!
I tried opening Money without online support, and it still crashed! I tried
opening the backup (made so shortly before), and it crashed too--both with
and without online support!

I can open a 3-week-old backup, but three weeks of work is a lot to lose! I
have been synchronizing with MSN Money. Is there a way to tell Money to
bring down all the transactions from MSN Money newer than what is in the
3-week-old version?

This is so disastrous!